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Photo: Brendan Smialowski (Getty Images) On Sunday night, President Donald Trump signed legislation for $900 billion in COVID relief funding along with $1.4 trillion in government spending, which averted a government shutdown that was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday. The COVID relief bill—which was approved by both the House and …
Read More »An Alternative to Police That Police Can Get Behind
Photographs by Ricardo Nagaoka Should American cities defund their police departments? The question has been asked continually—with varying degrees of hope, fear, anger, confusion, and cynicism—since the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day. It hung over the November election: on the right, as a caricature in attack ads (call …
Read More »DaBaby Plans To Retire In Five Years
DaBaby may still be a new jack in the music industry, but the rapper doesn’t plan on sticking around as an artist for too much longer. In a recent interview with XXL, DaBaby announced his intentions to get out of rapping in the near future. “Five year’s I’m (going to) …
Read More »Don’t Wait Until the New Year to Get Your Finances Together With This $20 Course
Looking back on middle and high school, it’s safe to say that a class or two should’ve been substituted for a course on managing your finances. Instead of aimlessly navigating the world of money year after year, make 2021 the year you finally get your finances in order. The 2021 …
Read More »Los Angeles Officials Trying To Determine if Increase in COVID-19 Cases Is Due To Mutated Strain
People wait in line to check in near a sign pointing to a COVID-19 testing area in the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid a COVID-19 surge in Southern California on December 22, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) The end …
Read More »Lil Wayne Wonders Why He Wasn't Invited To The Grammys | BET
With his long and storied career in the music industry, Lil Wayne is upset that he wasn’t invited to the 2021 Grammys ceremony. The rapper took to Twitter and questioned why he was not asked to attend next year’s show. “As an artist, when I see da Grammys coming up …
Read More »Martin Henry Freeman, First Black College President in the US, Honored With Sculpture in Vermont
Photo: Lisa Rathke (AP) Slowly but surely, efforts are being made to balance the scale in the documenting of this country’s history, in part through decisions about which Americans are honored with landmarks like sculptures and statues. In Vermont, a blindingly white state whose Black residents make up only 1.4% …
Read More »Fundraising Effort Started For Victim Of Wrong Police Raid
Anjanette Young, who was handcuffed while naked by Chicago police during a wrongful police raid in 2019, is using her traumatic experience to help others. After a professor from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration saw a local news report about Young’s story, she reportedly asked if …
Read More »U.S. Jobless Benefit Cut-Off Pushes Millions to Financial Cliff-Edge
When the U.S. Congress passed a pandemic aid bill on Monday, Meghan Meyer, a single mom from Lincoln, Nebraska, thought she would get some respite from the daily struggle to feed and house her two kids during an unprecedented health and economic crisis. But the next day President Donald Trump …
Read More »Woman Falsely Accuses Black Boy of Stealing Her Phone and Gets Support From Hotel Manager, Then It Turns up in an Uber
Screenshot: @keyonharrold (Instagram) Despite all that has happened this year, from Amy Cooper calling the cops on a Black man who asked her to leash her dog, to the many protests against racial injustice, things haven’t changed all that much in terms of everyday racism in America. Jazz musician Keyon …
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